In my hometown, agriculture is one of the sources of community income, especially in terms of growing rice in rice fields which is one of the mainstays of the community every year and some of the latest technology and the latest methods have been applied by the community in rice farming, one of which is by planting jajar legowo rice. . which is one of the engineering in planting rice with the legowo jajar system is to adjust the spacing and also make a line in the paddy field to then plant rice above that line.
Several years ago, the latest technology such as how to plant jajar legowo has been socialized by agricultural officers who are also referred to as agricultural extension workers, so that at first the jajar legowo system had quite a lot of obstacles faced by agricultural extension workers in applying to farmers because there were still many farmers who were skeptical about the system. This is because the jajar legowo system has a spacing and this latest method has never been applied by farmers, it is feared that it will have an impact on crop yields that will decrease, but after being used as a demonstration plot as a pilot and the results are very satisfying, the farmers began to be interested in this legowo jajar system and for about 10 years ago, farmers in my village started using or implementing it because with the jajar legowo system one of the advantages is to regulate the distance between rice clumps and also save rice seeds, increase photosynthesis of rice plants, besides this jajar legowo system will increase the tillers of rice clumps and can easy to eradicate weeds that usually grow in rice fields.
The jajar legowo system is concerned with the arrangement between rice clumps, namely between two or more rows of rice plants and one empty row, the purpose of this lego row is to increase the population between clumps and increase the number of rice clumps. because the more productive the rice tillers, the more yields will be produced. rice plants will increase, because it is proven that the legowo jajar system will increase the number of clumps of unit area of the population of rice tillers and automatically the amount of grain will also increase.
As farmers who still use traditional agricultural tools in the implementation of the jajar legowo planting system, rice farmers make their own tools from wood that are lined and have a distance between the wooden bars, usually this tool is called a tick, then the tool is pulled by the farmer in In rice fields, to get a straight line, first on the edge of the rice field, a rope is pulled, then the tool is pulled straight in line with the rope, after being pulled straight and then danced, just follow the first line so that the three rice seeds planted will get a straight line.
Before the rice planting process is carried out, the rice fields will be prepared in this preparation process first, the rice fields will be plowed using a machine tractor and the next stage after the rice fields are plowed then the rice fields will be trimmed to prevent water leakage and after that the rice fields will be leveled again using human power after the process the rice seeds will be sown where the rice seeds are sown this must be prepared first to make a rectangular bed then the water in the bed will be removed to dry and the rice seeds are ready to be sown, then after 15 days later the rice seeds are ready to be sown. ready to be transplanted into rice fields.
In rice field farming, water is the main source that greatly affects the rice planting process. These waterways need to be maintained and made in such a way that water can flow smoothly. It is seen here that the waterways have been neatly concreted to make water flow to the farmers' fields because the farmers Every time you plant rice you need to ensure that water is available smoothly.
The rice seeds in the beds must be pulled out using human labor and usually women will be paid for the removal and planting of rice, so before the rice seeds are planted, the process of removing rice that is ready to be planted in this case is in the beds where the rice is sown, it is necessary Add water so that the soil in the beds becomes soft and facilitates the extraction process.
Then the rice seedlings are ready for planting and this process also uses human labor the same as the process of removing seeds in planting these seeds is also carried out by women who are paid by the owner of the fields so it has become a habit in my place in the process of planting rice carried out by women, in terms of this increases job opportunities for women, and men I have never seen rice planting and if any it was only done by men on their own land.
The water in the fields needs to be drained so that the legowo lines are easily visible and also if there is no water, the rice field snails do not quickly eat rice seeds that are still small and the day before planting the rice, this golden snail needs to be eradicated because if it is not anticipated it will become a pest which eats young rice plants.
After a few days after planting the rice plants need to be given fertilizer, usually the fertilizers that are often used are nitrogen and phosphate which are widely sold in the market after transplanting, it is also necessary to spray with insecticide contact systems, or systemic systems to avoid pests and diseases that often attack rice plants. .
Need to wait about 3 or 4 months to be able to harvest this rice plant because the age of the existing rice plants is 3 months and some are 4 months so while waiting for this rice harvest process to be harvested it needs to be treated properly, in this process, it is necessary to maintain irrigation or provide fertilization and also spraying pesticides because the better the care of rice plants, the results obtained will also be maximized.
This is a simple explanation of the process of growing rice at my place and there are still many shortcomings in me explaining the process so I apologize if there are errors in writing and also thank you for your visit to my post, see you next time.
